Letters, 1917-1941.

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Letters, 1917-1941.

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In nine letters to Dr. Frau Elisabet Mayer, Feininger discusses his own work including the "Brücke" and "Jesuiten" sequences and evaluates his own artistic development. Two letters, 1918 March 22 and 1918 Nov. 3, document a clear shift in the painter's attitude towards the war and Germany's role in it. In another letter, 1919 Jan. 4, he defends artistic fantasy and artistic intuition against a wrong concept of rationality that calls modern art "pathological" and in a letter, 1919 Jan. 24., praises Rosa Luxemburg for her charismatic personality.

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Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919

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Born in Zamość, Russian Poland 1871, died in Berlin 1919; socialist theorist, journalist and agitator; joined the revolutionary socialist group ÌI. Proletarjat' as a schoolgirl in Warsaw in 1887 and had to emigrate in 1889; studied sciences and economics in Zurich; cofounder of the Socjaldemokracja Królestwa Polskiego (i Litwy) (SDKP) in 1894, which she represented in the International Socialist Bureau (ISB) 1904-1914; participated in the Russian Revolution 1905/06; active in the Sozialdemok...

Mayer, Elisabet.

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Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

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Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...